Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science....
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It wi...
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.''What sort of tools?''More stringent security measures. Uni...
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a...
The sin of quick anger is an idol of the heart that is not dying to our own rights.
So the organisation of society on the basis of functions, instead of on the basis of rights, implies three things. It means, first, that proprietary rights shall be maintained when they are accompanie...
So many people from my past taught me that it's not everyone that's in my life wants to see me achieve my goals and be great, but I thank God they're no longer in my life because I moved on a long tim...
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to prop...
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.